Fastener.



G. S. HICE.

FASTENER.

APPLICATION FILED Aua.I7, I9I4.

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Patented Dec. 7, 1915.

GEOlRGrE S. HICE, 0F BRQOKLYN', NEW YORK.

FASTENE-R.

Lijpecication of Letters Patent.

License.

Patented Dec. t, i915.,

Application led August 17, 1914. Serial No. 357,029.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE S. I-Iion, a citizen of the United States, residing at 696 to 710 Jamaica avenue, Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in fasteners, particularly such as are intended for use in connecting a collar to the neck band of a shirt.

It is an object of my invention to produce a fastener which will have all the advantages of the ordinary collar button, but without the disadvantagesthereof.

In the accompanying drawings, which are to be taken as a part of this specificationl and in which I have shown a preferred form of the embodiment of the invention,

Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view through a'neck band and a turn-over collar, and through a fastening device embodying the invention, which connects the neck band and the collar. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the v attaching device, and Fig. .3 is an edge 'View of the same. A Y

Referring to the numerals on the drawings there is shown in Fig. l the neck band 4 of a shirt, which is provided with theusual button-hole 5, and 6 indicates a collar, shown in the present instance as a turnover collar which is secured to the neck band 4 at the rear by means of my improved fastening device. This fastening device coinprises a single piece of sheet metal, which may be conveniently stamped out into form Yand which comprises an oblong base 7 curved from end to end as shown in Fig. 3. From this base extends a neck or connecting piece 8, which is preferably bent as shown and which takes a generally downward course away from the base 3, considering the base 7 as the top of the device. At the end of the neck 8 there is what may be termed a head 9, which has a stamped out projecting part or luglO. In use,the head 9 is inserted through the button-hole 5 of the neck band, with the base 7 on the inside and with the curve of Lthe base 7 coinciding with the curve of 'the neck band. The neck or connecting part 8 extends through the button-hole 5 of the neck band and also through the button-hole l1 of the collar 6,

the offset provided by the band in the con-- necting portion allowing for the thiclmess of the neck band and collar so that there is no tendency for the attaching device totilt.

. The head of the device 9 extends down bevas to provide larger tie space. A necktie is indicated at 14 in Fig. l, and it will be seen that the lower edge of this tie will bear against the connecting part or neck 8 of the device, which being of metal and of course smooth will ofer but little interference to the movement of the necktie in the act of tying the same. occupied by the neck 8 is at the point of the most decided bend in the`collar, and to provide a smooth surface here for the tie to move over means to minimize the 'sticking of the necktie in the act oftying it.

Inasmuch as many changes could be made in the above construction, and many apparently wide different embodiments of my invention could be made without departing fromY the' scope thereof, it is intended that all matter contained in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawings shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense.l It is also to be understood that the language used in the following claims is intended to cover all the generic and specific Afeatures of the invention herein described and all statements of the scope of the invention which, as a matter of language, might be said lto fall therebetween.

I claim -l. Aldevice of the kind described, comprising a metal blank having an oblong curved portion, a laterally extending neck offset therefrom, a head connected to said neck and a spacing lug on said head,`said lug being slightly smaller than said head and of approximately the same outline.

2.- A device of the kind described, comprising a metal blank having an .oblong Obviously the position curved portion; a laterally extending neck offset therefrom, an enlargement connected to said neck, said enlargement provided With a spacing means arranged centrally 5 thereof andl being of approximately the same outline as said enlargement.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

Y GEORGE S. HICE. Witnesses:

HARRmT L. VAN WAGNER,- SAMUEL B, MCNEILL. 

